Summer

Summertime

Photo of sunrise in Penguin Tasmania

  Summertime   ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush little baby, don’t you cry …’                                                                    George Gershwin’s lyrics to Summertime   On the island chorusing cicadas are marking the arrival of summer weather  in my … [Read more…]

Melbourne Trams In Summer

HEAT

The tram lurches away from the tram stop at the top end of Swanston Street. We can hear the aircon but can’t feel it. All the windows are hermetically sealed. When the doors whisper open a blast of hot northerly wind enters and stirs up the city aroma of petrol fumes, stale perfumes, body odour … [Read more…]